George Lucas Thursday unveiled statues of his iconic Yoda and Indiana Jones characters at San Anselmo's Imagination Park, cheered on by about 500 people crammed into the small park.
Lucas donated the land for the nearly completed park at 535 San Anselmo Ave. downtown, razed an existing building to make room for it and paid for the bronze statues.
Lawrence Noble, the sculptor who created the statues, was on hand for the ceremony.
"I was working for Lucasfilm designing posters in 1980, when I first saw 'The Empire Strikes Back." Inspired by the movie, "I went out and bought clay and sculpted Yoda. I never dreamed at the time that someday I would create a public statue of him."
The bronze Indiana Jones statue Noble created is about 6-foot-3, he said, and the Yoda statue is about 2 1/2-feet tall. It took him between three and five months to create the statues.
Hundreds of people from the community came to witness this awesome event in their own back yard including this young man dressed like his favorite Archaeology Professor.
So i guess George Lucas is putting to good use the gobs of money that Disney gave him instead of financing sub-par prequels.
Any comments you know where to put them.....
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